- Lieutenant Spears: [Voiceover - first lines of the main film] The reports said this would be the war to end all wars. They said X-Corp was too powerful... that nothing could stop it's artillery... for once the reports were right. After the initial strikes... only a few of us were lucky enough to survive. We would go on to be hunted by X-Corp ground units... an army of fighter drones and cyborgs... half-man, half-machine slaves now controlled by the system. After a year of hiding underground like rats... we began facing a new enemy as well... hunger. One thing soon became clear... the lucky ones are already dead.
- Colonel Shaw: We can't risk it!
- Lieutenant Spears: Risk what? We're out of food, supplies are down! We need to stop hiding and start fighting! It's a risk we have to take and you know it.
- Colonel Shaw: Now, let's just hope it's not a deathtrap.
- Lieutenant Spears: Take a look around you Colonel... we're already in one.
- Colonel Shaw: All right... it's been a long day and it's been rough... so let's cut the shit. We saved your ass for a reason Kilmore. We need details, we need to know what happened. We need to know exactly what it is we're fighting against... and we need to know how to kill it... because right now, all we do know... is that those machines of yours... wiped out 99% of the planet.
- Jack Kilmore: I remember talk of an underground safe zone when they were first building. I thought the idea had been dismissed, but I'm starting to think, they never got the memo.
- The President: I'm talking about the future, Jack. I'm talking about the corporations that ran this world, corporations like X-Corp. Just too powerful. Too reckless. You see Jack, we've been studying the trends for years now, all in an effort to forecast the path of our society, to try to figure out where it was all going and what we discovered, well, it was troubling. You see, there comes a point where technology becomes dangerous, it becomes a disease that grows and spirals out of control. If left untreated, well, it can destroy everything. Therefore, it must be stopped and everything that it has infected must be killed. Do you see where I'm going with this, Jack?
- Lieutenant Spears: [Last lines - Voiceover] We buried what was left of the bodies, then loaded our gear. And though our future may look grim at best, one thing is certain. We will never give up, never stop fighting. Cause somewhere out there, there's a group of men that took it upon themselves to play God. And now, they all must die.